I've done all the things you suggested but now all I get is the following error:
 
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "pd.lib"
 
But I can't find a pd.lib anywhere.  Maybe I should give in on this now!!
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <zmoelnig@iem.kug.ac.at>
To: "John Fentiman" <jsf103@york.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] Compiling PD externals

> > John Fentiman wrote:
> >
> > I've got hold of zexy.dsw but still can't seem to get helloworld to
> > compile.  Am I being really stupid here??!!!  I deleted all the source
> > files and zexy.h.  Helloworld compiles but when you try to compile the
> > whole thing it just brings up the following:
> >
> >
> > --------------------Configuration: zexy - Win32
> > Release--------------------
> > Linking...
> > LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol zexy_setup
> > zexy.lib : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
> > LINK : fatal error LNK1141: failure during build of exports file
> > Error executing link.exe.
> >
> > zexy.dll - 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> >
> > What am I missing out here?  It's driving me crazy.  All I want to do
> > is write simple externals.  Is it always this hard?
> no, you just have to make it work one time...
>
> go to project->properties (i think, it's called like this)
> step through all of the pages you find there, read them carefully and
> learn what they want you to teach.
> remove all traces of zexy and replace them by helloworld (or whatever)
> especially(!) when it comes to the export-function zexy_setup
>
> you should not create a library zexy.dll but helloworld.dll
> you have to export *_setup() -function where * is your library-name
> *.dll
>
> mfg.csd.aer
> IOhannes
>
> >
> > John
> >
> > >
>